Few days ago I was hanging out at Hookipa beach, on the north shore, east of the town of Paia, watching surfers faraway.. When I noticed a big black shade in the water, rolling in the backwash… I realized it was a sea turtle.. One? 3, no 6.. 7.. A bunch!!
And around 5 PM every afternoons, about 40/50 Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles (Honu) come ashore near the vertical rock wall at the east end of the beach. Talking to a couple of Italian marine biologist, volunteering here for the summer, I discovered that this is one of the very rare beach where turtles rest on the sand all night, to go back into the sea at sunrise. At first most folks don’t even realize they’re there because they look just like the scattered boulders in the same area (presumably one reason they have claimed this area en force).

On the opposite site a lonely and lazy seals was laying in the sun all day long, while a procession of surfers where running beside her to go get the more waves they can, perhaps during a lunch break..
Waves are glassy and regular around 2mt, good for surfers, if windy of course is full of kiters and windsurfer, well, Ho’okipa Beach Park is fun for every kind of board you ride!